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Anonymous
| Just trying to think of options, and I have been told by gyn that no fertility center will do IVF for me except with donor eggs. We haven't looked into it yet, but I'd appreciate help just knowing if this is true. |
Anonymous
| I think it depends on your history and your test results. My tests results were within line of what our Fertility Center wanted to see and they had me go through IVF with my own eggs at 41. I am now the proud momma of twins. |
Anonymous
| I think they suggest donor eggs, but will definitely be more defined after you test. I had my first child at 43. |
Anonymous
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I think most practices have a cut-off of 43 (if your ovarian reserve is predicted to be semi-decent). There are certainly women who have IVF success at 42 with their own eggs. The chance of success under the best of circumstances is probably <10% (maybe closer to 5% except for extraordinary cases) but of course, someone has to be in that small percentile!
Ivfconnections.com has message boards based on age and there is one for women over 40 and includes many women who are trying at ages 41 and 42. |
Anonymous
| I'm 44 and still struggling with this. At 42, your odds of success, either naturally or with IVF, are pretty low. That said, it does happen. There are some REs who would most likely let you cycle with your own eggs (Dr Sacks at Columbia Fertility, for one). But donor egg probably is the best option for you if you'd like to have a baby quickly. |
Anonymous
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totally depends on the practice. Some places, like Shady Grove, have a reputation (whether or not deserved I don't know) for pushing donor eggs onto 40+ year olds as a way to boost the clinic's success rates.
That has not been my experience with Columbia Fertility, which has been very positive with respect to our wishes not to do DE but to try with my own eggs (I'm 41), while at the same time being very honest about the DE alternative available. |
Anonymous
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Hello,
I am patient of Dr. Frankfurter at GW and they accept women in their 40s. You should run and not walk to a fertility clinic though! I would suggest you make an appointment today or tomorrow. There are many things to learn about and consider before you start an IVF cycle, so please start soon. |
Anonymous
I am the 1421 poster and I went to Shady Grove. Donor eggs were never even discussed. |
Anonymous
I WAS a patient at GW Fertility Clinic, but with another Doctor (Dr. Gindoff). We did one IVF cycle using my eggs. But it was not successful. So, we looked into using donor eggs. But GW does not have donor egg program that refunds your money if they are not successful. Shady Gove does, and I became pregnant with first IVF cycle. |
Anonymous
| If you are serious about using your own eggs, you should look at CCRM or Cornell, which have the best success rates in the country for older women. Call immediately - it'll take time to get in and cycle. |
Anonymous
| There's something called PGD (preimplantation genetics diagnosis) which takes a piece of the embryo and tests it for chromosomal disorders, similar to an amnio or CVS, but before it is implanted. While it's true that after the age 40, the quality of your eggs declines, but it's not impossible either to find the golden one. So much depends on the person, their family history, even weight. Some women are premenopausal in their late 30s, while some woman, like I, still get pregnant naturally at the age of 45. My mom started menopause at age 58. I got the "talk" when I decided to see an RE after repeated m/c, knowing they were from bad eggs....and before we discussed drugs, I got pregnant naturally with the golden egg. I was told that 99% of a woman's eggs are bad by the age of 43-but I've known MANY women who got pregnant in their 40s with their own eggs. One woman was 50-had twins! I know several women who decided to go the donor egg route. I will say that if, after TTC for a year with no success, I would have gone the donor egg route. |
Anonymous
There was just an article in this morning's Wall St. Journal that PGD is likely not to be helpful for conception among older women, and that it may actually be harmful, because by removing a cell it may damage remaining ones. |
Anonymous
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PP again--here is the link ot the article:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203366604574237912351241156.html |
Anonymous
| I would agree w/ the WSJ that standard PGD may not be very helpful (unless you're trying to screen for a certain disease); but the newer techniques mentioned that screen for all chromosomes (CGH, but also polar body testing, microarray) can be. Apparently there is a greater than 80% pregnancy rate if you can transfer a CGH normal blast. |
Anonymous
| I have multiple friends who got pregnant with their own eggs at 42 and older. Of course its not easy, but your gyn is just wrong. |